After much anticipation, WordPress 2.7 dubbed Coltrane has been released today and is available for download.

There are a ton of new features available in WordPress 2.7. That means some of us geeks are going to jump up and down with excitement to be a part of this great Open Source community that isn’t afraid to push the envelope to get us the features we want (and some we don’t want) faster than ever.

This also means some of us are going to cringe at the thought of upgrading to the new version and the possibility of breaking your perfectly working site.

But, unlike previous WordPress releases, WordPress 2.7 offers some serious advantages to upgrade. Here are a few new features in WordPress 2.7:

Just found your blog. It is great to find someone who can talk about WordPress in a way I can understand. I have only been blogging for a few months and I am trying to learn everything I can. I will RSS you and keep up with what is going on.
Do you think I, as a newbie wordpress blogger, should upgrade or wait for a while to see how things work out? I am afraid that if I have a problem I won’t know what to do.
Thanks
Andy Bacon

To be honest, the new interface took a little bit to get used to, as intuitive as it may be. But after playing with it a bit, I’m liking it a lot! I’m updating all my blogs to 2.7 now…little by little.

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